雅虎科技2016十大預測

9. There will be an Uber for friends
朋友出租服務將上線

Need a date for a party or someone to hang with at a ballgame? Just share someone else’s. Frog Design predicts the rise of “friendship as a service” in 2016. We liked that prediction so much we decided to borrow it. Isn’t that what the sharing economy is all about?
想參加聚會、想打球但卻苦于找不到伴嗎？完全可以從別人那租一個來！據青蛙設計公司（Frog Design）預測，“朋友出租服務”將于2016年上線。有需求就可以租，這和“分享型經濟”不是同一個道理嗎？

10. Your next boss may be an algorithm
老板也許會是機器人

Artificial intelligence will continue to be baked into an increasing number of devices and services. More than that, though, entire companies may be built around self-running programs, with business decisions made without any human intervention. Think we’re joking? The first decentralized organizations are already being developed for the Ethereum Frontier network. We have met our robotic overlords, and we’d like a 10 percent raise and more flex time, please.
人工智能技術將運用到更多的產品和服務中去。甚至整個公司都有可能實現自動運作。通過編排程序，商業決策或許不需要人的參與。這可不是開玩笑，以太坊（Ethereum）的Frontier平臺就在實行分散性運作。這么說我們的老板也許會是機器人。那么請給我加薪百分之十再給我更多的彈性時間吧，老板！

Vocabulary

niche: 小眾的
augmented reality: 增強現實
juggernaut: 使人盲目崇拜的事物
cyberespionage: 網絡間諜

英文來源：雅虎
譯者：牛歡
審校&編輯：丹妮